I’m
having trouble believing that Thanksgiving is now
less than a week away. We have had some great, large group T-Days over the
years, but some families dwindle just as new families emerge requiring new
demands from extended families. You just can’t be everywhere, even as hard as
you try. Somehow we always get there, though. Maybe not on that last Thursday
but another time when the thanks is just as pure. Getting together with people you
love --That’s a helluva gift. Holding them in your heart is that gift that
keeps on giving.
Uber
came in flying but will soon learn the facts of life
about slow growth as they get regulated.
The
demagogues are descending from the heavens like heavy
handed hail on this refugee discussion. Personally, I see this one as an issue
where we should step back from politicization and think in human terms –
suffering humans with no home in Syria, and USA humans wanting to protect their
families form attacks by madmen (And women in explosive vests) Once we take
immovable sides we lose a the opportunity for reasonable solutions. And, a
country here at peace with itself, instead of in pieces. Things that have made me
smile: --FBI official testifying before Congress saying that they have never
had anybody slip by – except the 15-20 million illegal immigrants at the
alleged southern border. –Pro refugee supporter saying, “after all, everybody
in the USA came from an immigrant”. The problem is that today the government
using our taxes pays for immigrants – legal and unlawful. You need to have
controls or become Greece.
The
Question:
What do you think are the five Luxury SUVs turning
heads at the Big LA Auto Show
The
Headlines:
--Stocks Strong; Nike Stock Surge Accounting For ¼
Of Dow Stick Gain Of 141 (11:00 AM); United Health Also Looking Good.
--Terror Group Shouting “Allahu Akbar Storm Mali
Luxury Radisson Hotel Killing At Least 27, Taking 170 Hostages; Rapid Response
By French Troops, UN Peacekeepers, Malian Forces And US Special Ops Freed All
Hostages By Evening.
--Thousands In Northwest USA Without Power After Raging
Storm.
--ISIS Said To Be Working With Scientists To Develop
Chemical Weapon Program.
--Chinese Researcher Finds Major Flaws In Popular
Chrome Browser JavaScript That Could Lead To Takeover Of Apps And Android
System. Suggestions: If Android Go To Mozilla; If Apple Go Back To Safari.
--New Study Shows That More Mexicans Are Leaving Than
Entering USA.
--Feds To Require Shelters For Transgender Folks.
--Israeli Spy Pollard Released After 30 Years.
Non-Partisan
Tids, Department:
Happy 73rd Birthday Joe Biden! Thanks for
making us laugh.
Everything
has an equal but opposite action, While millions
drive over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s at low, low gas prices,
over thirty oil producing companies in the Southwest are suffering and are in or
near bankruptcy, meaning thousands of their employees will be looking for a
free Christmas goose from Scrooge.
Yum,
Department:
It’s not a T-day recipe but it locks good to me – Braised
Tarragon chicken thighs. Preheat oven to 325. In large ovenproof skillet heat 2 tbs unsalted butter and 1 tbs
OO, then add 5 minced shallots and 3 min garlic gloves and cook fro 3 mins. Add
¾ cps dry white wine and cook over High heat 3 mins. Stir in 1 ½ cps chix
stock, ½ cp chop Tarragon and 2 tbs chp’d parsley. Bring to boil. S&P to
taste. Lie chix thghs skin down in liquid and simmer 5 mins. Move skillet ot
oven and bake for 35 mins. Turn over thighs and bake 25-30m til 190 degree. Preheat
oven broiler. Move chicks skin up to broiler pan. )Making Sauce: Spoon off most fat from liquid. In cup mix 1 1/2 tbs cornstarch
with water til paste. Bring liquid to boil over med heat and stir in Corn starch.
Bring to boil, sim for 2 mins til thickish.) Broil chix for 2 mins, 8 in from
element. Remove and spoon over sauce.
I
look at President Obama and I see a man who wants a
world without borders.
I
remember when the big sports ticket was for a
Dartmouth-Yale football game, or Princeton-Penn or Harvard-Yale. I remember sitting
in the nose bleed seats at a sold out 85,000 seat Yale bowl. That was before
the late 60’s generation (Hill and Bill and friends) decided protest was in and
football was beneath them. I also remember the time in 1968 when two friends of
mine (One well known and living in RI) snuck into Harvard Stadium for “The Game”
between two undefeated teams. After all of that nefarious work and after it
appeared that the highly touted and nationally ranked Yale had the game in hand,
they left early to beat the traffic, only to learn as they sat in the parking
lot that in just the 42 seconds remaining, Harvard scored 16 points to tie. The
Boston Globe headline read: “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29!
I
don’t read anything under headlines like “Guns are not
the answer.”
Maybe
I should start playing Christmas music to open the Tids. People
will think it is a sale and read it.
I
see where black protestors at Princeton University are demanding
a black only safe space. So, they are protesting to go back to segregation.
Groups
satisfied with underachieving and low standards are demanding
the end to tougher national testing for students. Yeah, great, keep them stupid
and then they can get into Princeton and protest.
Personally,
I think Jennifer Lawrence looks better without make up as in Hunger Games as opposed
to those tedious red carpet appearances.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 29 continues…
Nancy
took a couple of deep breaths. Was she wondering if she should tell Jared all
just because of one great night, or was she just thinking about how to say what
he should know?
Jared was just sitting there looking at this beautiful
woman, wondering how his life had changed so dramatically since that night
looking out his window at the parking lot. Crazy, wasn’t it, he thought.
“Well Jared,”
now she reached again to take his hand, “I and my family have a long history in
this area of the country. You may have noticed from my features that my lineage
goes back to the Wampanoags, who were the principle peoples of this region
since hundreds, maybe thousands of years before English settlers. I’m proud of
that, and also that of my English heritage which goes to the Hicks family that came
to Plymouth in1621. There were a lot of Hicks and some of the more rambunctious
kids went through here and Newport down to Long Island,” she paused and smiled,
“probably to get away from the law and insulted wives. But some of the Hicks
settled around here and North of here, worked the land, traded crops and furs
and most important, became highly trusted by almost all of the tribes.”
She watched
him absorbing her words, and felt that funny twinge she first felt that night
he got whacked by a two by four…a feeling she began to understand that grew and
grew until last night.
“You don’t
need to know more than that for now. Basically, the result of this heritage is that
I and my family own almost all of land in this entire region, from the Sakonnet
Bay to parts of Fall River. We have sold some and kept most, but allowed usage.
It is registered in the federal land offices, and that trinket you found in
your granddaughters toy chest, is the key to my proving ownership. Jared, I can
stop anything if I want to, and now somebody knows it.”
Reading
Between the lines Movie Reviews:
--I’ll be going to the finale of Hunger Games
Mockingjay Part 2 for sure. I have enjoyed the series and the latest lives up
to expectations as Kitness does what she does. They it comes to an exciting,
poignant and overall satisfying conclusion. That’s all I ask.
--I was looking for good things from the new mystery,
suspense drama The Secret in their Eyes. It’s about he murder of a woman’s
daughter and the hunt for the killer. 13 years later the killer is discovered
and so are some secrets. Good cast with Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and
Chiwetel Ejiofor. But, the critics are killing it. I may go anyhow.
--The Night Before, they say, is a decent,
humorous Christmas movie starring Seth Rogan, Joseph Levit and Lizzy Caplan
among many who form a group of life-long friends who have traditionally gotten together
Chris tams Eve for a night of debauchery and hilarity (Probably not at Midnight
mass). But as they are becoming adults and see their tradition coming to an end.
They want to go out in style so they set out to find something called the
Nutcracka Ball – the so-called Holy Grail of Christmas parties. I probably won’t
be going to this one. I have a different view of Christmas, and I like it.
The
Answer:
Times are changing from then when people went to
see “concept” cars til now when Compact SUV’s are the rage. Five expensive
models opening eyes are Infiniti QX30, Cadillac XT5, Jaguar F-Pace,
Mercedes-Benz GLS and the kind of quirky, convertible that is also a SUV – the Land
Rover Range Rover Evoque!
Have
a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
Maybe all we need around here to combat a growing smothering government is Katniss.
Here’s
little Sergeant Pepper for You:
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